Just yesterday, when we told you the developers behind CyanogenMod were thinking about releasing a root-only app store for Android, we mentioned that CyanogenMod has a unique user install base of around one million. Last night, that number became official.

Announced by Steve Kondik on Google+, this is a huge milestone for Android modding and the community behind it. CyanogenMod officially has over one million unique user installs. According to the CyanogenMod stats page, over 200,000 users have installed CyanogenMod 7.1 alone. The next closest is CM 7.1RC, with only 48,000. And as for the single most popular device? That would be the HTC Desire with nearly 81,000 installs.

Considering 700,000 Android devices are activated daily, and 200 million total devices have been activated so far, one million unique installs may not seem astronomical. But when you think of it in terms of 1 out of every 200 Android users on the planet uses CyanogenMod, that’s impressive to say the least. And those numbers don’t say anything about the passion, voice and devotion behind the Android modding community.

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Congrats to them! The CyanogenMod devs do a lot of great things for the Android modding community, including Clockwork recovery and the ROM Manager app. And their new Trebuchet launcher is pretty great despite being only version 0.1.

I don’t even use CyanogenMod itself, but the fact is, they’re usually at the forefront of ROM development, and many ROMs out there are based on the work the CM team does. So all of us running custom ROMs owe them a lot of thanks.

How do they know how many devices are rooted? Is this an accurate number? My paranoia asks, “Are the devices calling home to momma” ?

I was trying to sell a rooted Color Nook I picked up from ebay recently. The previous owner had not de-registered the device. I had to call Barnes & Noble tech support to de-register the device. The technician said the device had been rooted. How did she know?

How could Barnes & Noble know that the Nook was rooted? (Those sneaky bastards!)

I had wiped the device and un-rooted before I called them. After they got the serial number, they knew it had been rooted. I just played dumb. It was tech girl from India so the cultural mis-communication was poor at best.

Congrats to Cyanogenmod! If not for them, my phone would still be a random rebooting, app force closing, no GPS working piece of crap. I look forward to you guys always be around for the modding community and bailing us out. Three cheers for Cyanogenmod!!

No wonder the HTC Desire is the most popular device with CM. Without a custom rom using something like app2sd+, it’s just electronic scrap due to its small internal memory. So thanks Cyanogenmod for bringing my device back to life :-)

Congrats to them! The CyanogenMod devs do a lot of great things for the Android modding community, including Clockwork recovery and the ROM Manager app. And their new Trebuchet launcher is pretty great despite being only version 0.1.

I don’t even use CyanogenMod itself, but the fact is, they’re usually at the forefront of ROM development, and many ROMs out there are based on the work the CM team does. So all of us running custom ROMs owe them a lot of thanks.

How do they know how many devices are rooted? Is this an accurate number? My paranoia asks, “Are the devices calling home to momma” ?

I was trying to sell a rooted Color Nook I picked up from ebay recently. The previous owner had not de-registered the device. I had to call Barnes & Noble tech support to de-register the device. The technician said the device had been rooted. How did she know?

How could Barnes & Noble know that the Nook was rooted? (Those sneaky bastards!)

I had wiped the device and un-rooted before I called them. After they got the serial number, they knew it had been rooted. I just played dumb. It was tech girl from India so the cultural mis-communication was poor at best.

Congrats to Cyanogenmod! If not for them, my phone would still be a random rebooting, app force closing, no GPS working piece of crap. I look forward to you guys always be around for the modding community and bailing us out. Three cheers for Cyanogenmod!!

No wonder the HTC Desire is the most popular device with CM. Without a custom rom using something like app2sd+, it’s just electronic scrap due to its small internal memory. So thanks Cyanogenmod for bringing my device back to life :-)